Airline network development in Europe and its implications for airport planning
By: Guillaume Burghouwt.
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780754645061
Subjects: Airports -- Europe -- Planning.; Airways -- Europe -- Planning.; Scheduling -- Europe.; Airlines -- Europe.; Aeronautics, Commercial -- Europe -- Forecasting.
Description: "The ongoing deregulation and liberalization of worldwide air transport markets confronts airport planners with an increasingly problematic context. On the one hand, the capital intensive, large-scale and complex airport investments need a detailed, long/medium-term planning of airport infrastructure. Such planning requires at least predictable traffic volumes (and traffic composition) within the planning horizon. On the other hand, airline route networks are increasingly dynamic structures that frequently show discontinuous changes. As a consequence, the much more volatile airport traffic restricts the value of detailed traffic forecasts. Volatility of airport traffic and its composition requires flexibility of airport strategies and planning processes. The book explores this dilemma through a detailed study of airline network development, airport connectivity and airport planning in the deregulated EU air transport market."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-282) and index.